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Home heating, cooling and ventilation
Furnaces, heat pumps, ducts and extract ventilation for houses in Bellingham, Ferndale and Lynden.
Diagnosis, then a price
Gas furnaces, electric furnaces, heat pumps and the mixed systems that appear when something was added and nothing removed. We test rather than swap parts, and you get the fault, the price and the alternative in writing before work starts.
Anything involving combustion gets the safety checks as well: flue condition, draught and heat exchanger. If it is unsafe, we shut it down and say so plainly.
What decides which type
The house decides, not the brochure. There are three usual answers and a clear reason for each.
- DuctedWhere the existing ducts can carry the airflow — measured first, because a lot of them cannot.
- DuctlessWhere there are no ducts, or where two or three rooms are the whole problem.
- HybridKeeping a gas furnace as backup and letting the heat pump do the everyday work.
- Backup heatConfigured as a safety net rather than as the thing running all winter — the setting that decides your bills.
- NoiseWorth thinking about on a small lot. Placement is part of the design, not an afterthought.
- What we will not claimA savings percentage. It depends on your bills and your house, and we would rather show you the arithmetic.
Damp air has to leave the house
In this climate a fan that does not work is the difference between a dry house and a damp one. Most of the ones we test move a fraction of their rated airflow, usually because of the duct rather than the fan.
We measure, fix the duct, and re-measure. Where a house is genuinely tight we will talk about proper ventilation — but only after the simple things are right.
The part that decides comfort
- Measure static pressureHigh static explains most complaints about noise, poor airflow and equipment that trips.
- Find the restrictionA crushed run, an undersized return or a filter cabinet that was never right.
- Repair or redesignWhichever is honest for the house — patching a system that needs redesigning wastes your money.
- Re-measureSo the improvement is demonstrated, not asserted.
